Highlights from “Sustaining Your Business through Medicaid Reform” Provider360° Event

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During the
Small Business Behavioral Healthcare Week in May of 2018, the Provider 360° team hosted
a Medicaid reform summit for behavioral healthcare providers in Kannapolis, N.C.

To provide some
background, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a law in 2015 that
directs the entire State Medicaid program to transition from a fee-for-service
model to a managed care model by 2019 (Medicaid behavioral health benefits are
already utilizing a managed care model through LME/MCOs).

1) The Medicaid Managed Care Proposed Program Design will go live in July 2019.
The vision is for these changes is to implement a Medicaid managed care program
that:

Advances high-value care

Improves population health

Supports providers

Establishes a sustainable program with predictable costs

2) The key themes of the Medicaid Managed Care Program include:

Improve health and wellbeing of North Carolinians

Focus on the health of the whole person

Support clinicians in delivering high-quality care at good value

Addresses both medical and non-medical drivers of health

3) There is a plan in place to support Providers through this transition. Some
of the supports include:

Education and training through regional Provider Support Centers

Reduction of administrative burden

Assurance of transparent and fair payments to providers

Support of workforce initiatives

Use of new tools to combat the Opioid crisis

Support of tele-health initiative

4) These changes will also include physical and behavioral health integration
that will likely include the following:

A single point of accountability for care and outcomes of which will reduce clinical risk and will giv beneficiaries one insurance card.

Approximately 1.8 million Medicaid beneficiaries would receive coordinated physical and behavioral health services.

Most Medicaid beneficiaries (<90%) would enroll in Standard Plans.

A smaller number with significant BH or I/DD needs would be enrolled in Tailored Plans.

This gives a snapshot of what to expect with the upcoming NC Medicaid Reform,
however, it is reasonable to expect changes to the proposed program design as
the State gets closer to implementation. To follow the progress and find the
latest news on NC Medicaid Reform, please visit: https://www.ncdhhs.gov/nc-medicaid-transformation.

Monica Akerele is a native of Charlotte, NC and currently a Graduate Assistant for the Provider 360 collaborative with UNCC and Cardinal Innovations Healthcare. She has over 12 years of business management and supervisory experience gained while working in the Corporate sector. She left the corporate world to pursue her passion of Social Work.

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